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Showing 1 to 20 of 641 for “"Talking"”.
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An interactive talking head
… a novel method for producing a synthetic talking head. The method is based on earlier work in which the behaviour of a synthetic individual is generated by reference to a probabilistic model of interactive beha viour within the visual domain - such models are learnt automatically from …
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Talking in Her Sleep
<p>Poetry</p>
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A Talking Computer Terminal
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Talking About Teaching Teacher Efficacy
The narratives created tensions that stimulated preservice educators to talk about how they would handle the situations articulated by the veteran teachers. The participants agreed that the ideas in the narratives made them think about: (a) possible role dimensions of a special educator; (b) …
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Talking About Infertility: A Conceptual Model
… interactional partners, face when it comes to talking about this potentially stigmatizing condition. Twenty-three women took part in qualitative interviews and described conversations in which they discussed or avoiding discussing infertility and related aspects with others. Results indicated …
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Talking and Not Talking: Sexual Education and Ethics for Young Women within the Evangelical Movement in America
<p>In this paper I intend to discuss the ways in which sex, sexuality, and the female body are treated in the discourse within the Evangelical movement, particularly with regard to teenaged and young girls. I will focus on the way young women are talked to about sex, and how they are socialized and …
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The Effect of Talking on oral Thermometry
… an experiment was done to find out the effect of talking upon subsequent oral thermometry. A need for such a study was seen in 1) the apparent indifference of nursing service personnel to possible influences of talkativeness on sublingual temperature evaluations and 2) the seeming want of …
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Talking Sports: Rhetorical Benefits Of Blogging Sports Journalism
<p>The introduction of new publishing platforms like blogs into the world of sports journalism has forced journalists to modify their technique and approach to writing. This paper addresses that shift through examination of rhetorical theory, in-depth first-person research, and a culmination of …
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Impartialist Ethics and Psychic Disintegration: A Talking Cure
<p>This dissertation deals with integrity understood as a state of the psyche. Its primary interlocutor is Professor Bernard Williams, and its point of departure is my interpretation of his Objection from Integrity to impartialist moral theories. Against Williams, I hope to show that the active …
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An exploration of children's drawing, talking and thinking
… categories drawn from an analysis of the talking data. Piaget's theoretical understanding of children's cognitive development is used to frame the data. Lowenfeld's (1975) broad developmental stages of children's art was used to test for correlation with the sample's output. In addition, …
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Talking the talk: New Zealanders remember the Vietnam War
From 1964 to 1972, almost 4,000 New Zealand military personnel served in Vietnam, most in an active combat role. The war was a politically and socially divisive issue for New Zealanders in general, but it can be argued that its greatest impact has been on the veterans themselves. This thesis will …
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Indigenous Leadership: A Talking-Circle Dialogue with Cree Leaders
The study of leadership is gaining popularity as evidenced by the increasing number of leadership development programs in both corporate and academic environments. Therefore, the way that leadership is defined becomes important. Unfortunately, the majority of literature on leadership emphasizes a …
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Talking with ‘Things’ in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture
… casket, a book, a relic, becomes talkative. Such talking things can move across boundaries of time and space in ways that embodied humans cannot, transporting the past into the present and reshaping the moment into which they arrive.
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Talking About Learning Online: Creating the Context for Kairos
… findings are presented in a framework called Talking About Learning Online (TALO) and present a series of design principles that bring together tenets of dialogic education, Marzano's new taxonomy (MNT) of thinking skills in relation to online education, and student voice. This framework is …
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Dolltalk : a computational toy to enhance narrative perspective-talking
School curricula are designed with the expectation that students achieve literacy. They usually support the acquisition of language by encouraging students to learn how to decode information within a sentence. In this thesis it is suggested that literacy skills in children five to seven years of …
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